³ Now the donkeys^(A) belonging to Saul’s father Kish were lost, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go and look for the donkeys.”

² When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb,^(A) at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys^(B) you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried^(C) about you. He is asking, “What shall I do about my son?”’

⁴ He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys.^(A) They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.^[a](B)